BYMichael Cannell Relevancy Score: 65 Wed Jul 15, 2009 at 11:21 AM
These sweet summery beach days contain some of the happiest hours of the year. We wish we always lived like this: The outdoor showers, the bare feet, the calm.
In a similar way, beach homes burrowed in the dunes reflect ...READ»
I'm 45 today.
It's Labor day, so appropriately, I'm laboring over this blog entry in the stickily sweet environs of a Ben & Jerry's ice cream parlor, the mediocre drone of generic strummy rock competing with the Kelvinator. Hey, ...READ»
BYLynette Chiang Relevancy Score: 48 Sun Jul 15, 2007 at 8:15 PM
Right at the outset, I'll do the politically correct thing and say, I've got nothing against kids.
In fact, I'd happily trade places with a lot of them right now: I'd get fed, watered and put to beddy-bye under a duvet dotted ...READ»
BYCliff Kuang Relevancy Score: 44 Thu Feb 19, 2009 at 9:25 AM
There's a fascinating new story in SEED, the science magazine, about what it's like behind the scenes at the cavernous, awe-inspiring, and sometimes creepily quiet American Museum of Natural History. As science journalist Carl ...READ»
Fifty years ago, two girls, Able and Baker, went to space. After their brief spaceflight on May 28, 1959, the two pioneers were hailed as heroes and made the cover of LIFE, which lauded them as America's Space Travelers. Able, a ...READ»
BY Anni Layne Relevancy Score: 30 Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:38 AM
Learn how to transform a layoff into a savvy sabbatical -- a time to recharge your batteries and learn new skills without sabotaging your résumé. Author Hope Dlugozima offers tips for taking six months off smart.READ»
The news that the XO Laptop developed by the One Laptop Per Child foundation is launching a buy-one-get-one sale to encourage first world consumers to help fund laptops for children in developing countries has spawned an eager chorus ...READ»
Over 900,000 entries for the Annual Diversity Immigrant Visa Program have already been submitted for 2011. This was just during the initial week – a 63% increase over last year.
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BYAriel Schwartz Relevancy Score: 20 Thu Feb 19, 2009 at 3:11 PM
A group of enterprising MIT students has come up with a novel way for developing countries to gain access to washing machines: pedal power.
MIT's pedal-powered washing machine, the product of four years of research, is made up ...READ»
BY Fast Company Relevancy Score: 19 Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:04 AM
Who's that man walking through the street markets of Ecuador, trying to make $50 loans? It's Michael Chu, a former executive of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts Co., the world's most powerful leveraged buyout operator.READ»
BY Lucas Conley Relevancy Score: 14 Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 7:49 AM
Equal Exchange's fair-trade coffee isn't just virtuous. Because of the company's innovative and collaborative ways of dealing with growers, it gets better beans. That makes for a darn good cup o' joe -- and caffeinated growth for Equal Exchange. Do companies that thrive by twisting their suppliers' arms have something to learn?READ»
